Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Life in Miniature. He is equally depressed when his daughter's marriage collapses and she comes home with her two irritating children. Shingo is obsessed with beauty, but both his wife and daughter are ugly. He is left with the gingko tree, the sunflowers and Kikuko for comfort.
Improving Natural Beauty
For its part, Con Ed claims to be improving the area's natural beauty. The old buildings along the water front below Storm King are dilapidated, and the company plans to demolish them and fill in a mile of river shallows for a 57-acre park.
The glory of the Aquarium was here. It was the scarlet shrimp, its little transparent legs regretfully descending to the seabed, its filigree antennae brushing the tubular plants nearby; a miniature, delicate, barely perceptible glass sculpture, shyly animate. He was a tenuously fashioned creature, seemingly held together ?? his good nature...
John McCandish King is a storybook example of the go-getting American entrepreneur, a man who is willing to take the big risk to get the big reward and knows how to use technology and the tax laws. Starting with a $1,500 investment in an Oklahoma oil-drilling venture...